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Listen on your own time by auto- downloading each week's show to your computer or mp3 player
Like to listen to Making Contact, but don't have time to wait for it to download or to listen on the radio? Our podcast is for you! Free software catches the show every week, automatically. If you have a portable mp3 player, you can listen anywhere, anytime!
Our podcasts update each Wednesday morning with the latest Making Contact show.
128k (broadcast quality)
delivers two mp3 files:
full-length program - approx. file size 27,190k
promo - approx. file size 923k
CLICK-to-SUBSCRIBE: iTunes | My Yahoo | Google | Odeo
URL: http://radioproject.libsyn.com/rss
Note: We use a "skip hours" command, which tells podcatching software to not auto-catch between 12midnight PST on Monday and 11pm PST Tuesday. Set your software to catch us after that - use this link for timezone adjustments.
Getting Started:
1) Get connected! In order to receive podcasts, you need a computer, and an Internet connection (preferably high-speed like DSL or broadband).
2) Get the (FREE) software! Podcatching software allows your computer to automatically check for new editions of Making Contact and download them.
Podcatching software that's available for free on the Internet:
iTunes - PC or Mac
Juice (formerly known as iPodder) - PC, Mac or GNU/Linux
Doppler - PC
Playpod - Mac
3) Subscribe! Once you install the podcatching software, follow the instructions to subscribe to the Making Contact podcast (64k or 128k version).
You can use the CLICK-to-SUBSCRIBE links at the top of this page OR copy+paste the appropriate podcast URL into your podcatching software - for example, for iTunes users, go to the "Advanced" tab in the top menu, select "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste http://radioproject.libsyn.com/rss in the field.
You can either schedule your podcatching software to download shows at a certain time (if you leave your computer on and connected to the Internet all the time) or let it download shows whenever you open the application.
4) Listen! Clicking (or double-clicking) on the mp3 that downloads to your computer will usually launch whatever mp3-listening software you have selected as your default (PCs usually use Windows Media, Macs usually use QuickTime).
To listen away from your computer, a portable mp3 player (iPod, Zen, iRiver or other) is also needed.
Non-iPod users: Load each show on your portable media player just like you do with any other mp3 file.
iPod users: We recommend iTunes, which passes podcasts to your iPod when you update it.
5) Tell us what you think! Send us feedback about your experience with our podcasts.
The podcast file compression is 11:1 at 44100 Hz, and retains virtually all aspects of the original sound file that you hear on our CDs, including overall quality, consistent sound level and range of frequencies.
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